There are a options bluff your way into the villains, but I've always run into an already marked as hostile/red (I think through a bug, as they were in different places each play through and seemingly for no reason.) so fights broken out.
So just wondering, is it an option? Or if you manage to follow the bluff/joining storyline does it end the same way? just a sneaky/bluff way to reach the bear but the same from there?